Category: Jax2
Dear Mayor Landrieu and Councilmember Palmer…
Dear Mayor Landrieu and Councilmember Palmer, Please allow me to applaud you on your recent efforts to address the growing health and safety issues on Jackson Square. Our city’s “old square” is a rich symbol of its cultural identity and deserves the critical attention being given to it by city officials. It is as relevant now as…
Varg Gras 2012 Commemorative Drawing!
By the magnificent Katie Lease!
Smells Like Cultural Commodification
I knew as soon as I saw the ladies with ostrich feathers on their heads along side two Mardi Gras Indians that I was about to witness some cultural commodification…
A Sassy, Cool Soul
I was stopped in my tracks early Sunday morning on Jackson Square by this splendid painting by a fellow artist, Conroy. Perhaps the performance of Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild was still fresh in my head but never the less, the imagery in the painting was quite moving for me. Painted from…
12 Tips For The Proper Handling of Street or Market Artists
As a full-fledged, self-supporting, fedora-sporting member of the growing creative class, I present these 12 tips in the best ways to buy from and deal with street artists or market vendors… Do not devalue the art. One can try to bring the price of a piece down by pointing out what they perceive as flaws…
Why Sister, Why
On Jackson Square, the worst thing that can happen to an artist who has set up for the day is to “blank,” not sell a single piece. The entire effort being financially meaningless. Sure, the artist may have passed out some cards, met some nice folks, visited with some friends, took in the sights and…
Jackson Square Artists Panorama
I could have spent more time with the seams but…
2 Poems Written on the Square
Summer last, Cicadas sang strong. The season, long. Summer this, Robes run sour. The hours, showers. ———————————– Pavement pulverized pigeon, horseflies and stink. Perspiring painters ponder, “What would the aliens think?”
Symmetry, Last Time
So today I was on the Square and was selling apiece to a couple and the fella asked in an accent I knew I’d heard many times but couldn’t place, “are there any good symmetries around heir?” And I thought to myself how I just had a bout of symmetry the last day or two…